Knave Quotes

46 Knave quotes by 33 unique authors

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave… — Lord Chesterfield
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave. — George Berkeley
Necessity makes an honest man a knave. — Daniel Defoe
It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman. — Charles Caleb Colton
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. — Mary Wortley Montagu
You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave. — William Shakespeare
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone,… — William Shakespeare
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave. — David Hume
He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool. — Karl G. Maeser
Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. — William Blake
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with… — Charles Caleb Colton
Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be… — William Blake
None are so busy as the fool and the knave. — John Dryden
How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or… — Ann Radcliffe
A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a… — C.S. Lewis
Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool. — Horace
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a… — William Hazlitt
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings,… — Charles Caleb Colton
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool; since the most… — Charles Caleb Colton
A crafty knave needs no broker. — Horace
The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by… — Christian Nestell Bovee
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time. — Douglas William Jerrold
There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave. — William Shakespeare
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. — William Hazlitt
While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave. — Alexander Pope

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